Monthly Archives: January 2007

Scientists and evangelicals working together… MASS HYSTERIA!!!

Posted on January 18, 2007 by | Leave a comment

Well, okay, it’s not mass hysteria. But it is always more than a little odd when Evangelical Christian leaders and scientists agree to work together. Normally the evangelical churches view scientists as heretics at best, anti-Christians at worst. But there’s apparently one issue that is large enough to bridge this gap: global warming:

“Whether God created the Earth in a millisecond or whether it evolved over billions of years, the issue we agree on is that it needs to be cared for today,” said Rich Cizik, vice president of government relations for the National Association of Evangelicals, which represents 45,000 churches.Eric Chivian, director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, agreed, saying: “Scientists and evangelicals have discovered that we share a deeply felt common concern and sense of urgency about threats to life on Earth and that we must speak with one voice to protect it.”

There is actually something that I have never understood: why aren’t ultra-conservative Christians environmentalists? Psalms 24:1 says that the earth is god’s. So by not taking care of the environment, we are destroying god’s property.

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Arguments against the war

Posted on January 15, 2007 by | 1 Comment

(via The Rude Pundit)

“We are the greatest military power and we don’t need to prove our military power. I think we are superbly well-placed, equipped to take the initiative in this and create the atmosphere for negotiations by ceasing bombings and some of the other things we are doing. Now if our nation insists on escalating the war and if we don’t see any changes, it may be necessary to engage in civil disobedience to further arouse the conscience of the nation and make it clear we feel this is hurting our country.”And I might say this is another basic reason why I am involved and concerned. It is because I love America. I am not engaged in a hate America campaign. I would hope that the people of this country standing up against the war are standing up against it because they love America and because they want to see our great nation really stand up as the moral example of the world.

“The fact is we have alienated ourselves from so much of the world and have become morally and politically isolated as the result of our involvement in the war…”

That quote sounds like it could apply directly to the current war in Iraq. But it was said almost 40 years ago by the Reverend Martin Luther King. The end of that last sentence is “…in Vietnam.” It is sad that, four decades later, those words are relevant once again.

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Pat Robertson has lost it

Posted on January 6, 2007 by | 1 Comment

I think it is safe to say that Pat Robertson has pretty much lost all contact with reality:

In what has become an annual tradition of prognostications, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would result in “mass killing” late in 2007.
“I’m not necessarily saying it’s going to be nuclear,” he said during his news-and-talk television show “The 700 Club” on the Christian Broadcasting Network. “The Lord didn’t say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that.”

Now, I’m not saying that Robertson has ever had a firm grasp of reality, but at least he used to seem like he had at least one foot grounded in the real world. But now? I think he’s lost it. Completely and totally. Unfortunately, his delusions are going to scare the hell (and a lot of cash) out of a lot of gullible people. And that’s just plain sad.

Welcome to 2007, I guess.

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